Our latest poet on lyrikline.org has been active in the struggle for democracy and human rights in Africa since the 1960s. He studied Law in Addis Ababa and was expelled in his final year for demonstrating against the regime of Emperor Haile Selassie. He is a founding member of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party and has been banned from the country by three different Ethiopian governments for his commitment to human rights. He left Ethiopia in 1969 to pursue a life of political activism and lives in Paris today.